Mel Bay Publications

This collection of symphony themes contain the best known and beautiful melodies composed by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Berlioz, Franck, Brahms, Dvorak and Tc...

This book contains 41 of the world's greatest pieces of classical music specially arranged for the pedal-free Harp. Each piece has been carefully selected for its suitability, although some of the pie...

In this edition, Guido Böger provides 72 further compositions by the legendary Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan, arranged for classical guitar. These solo pieces are generally of intermediate difficul...

This collection of Baroque music is arranged for the intermediate level clarinetist with the piano part being of equal skill level. The music is taken from keyboard, song and chamber music sources and...

Beautiful Music for Clarinet präsentiert ein ganzes Dutzend einzigartiger Stücke mit Klavierbegleitung, die aus der Sinfonie-, Opern-, Klavier- oder Volksliteratur der Klassik bis zur frühen Moderne s...

This volume consists of several pieces by Gabriel Faure and Claude Debussy that are arranged for B-flat clarinet and piano. The music has a variety of late nineteenth century styles that range from la...

This book begins with the fundamentals of music, then gradually introduces the reader to bugle studies and calls. Concepts include tone production, music theory, note values, double tonguing, triple t...

Easy Classics für Trompete ist Teil der Easy Classics-Reihe, die Anfängern und fortgeschrittenen Schülern eine unterhaltsame Einführung in einige der größten klassischen Melodien bietet. Dieses Buch e...

A collection of 27 solos written specifically to capture the beautiful sound and character of the flugelhorn.  All selections may also be played on trumpet or cornet.  Includes access to online audio...

J. S. Bach's two-part keyboard pieces form a significant body of musical literature, but only occasionally have they been arranged for strings. This carefully transcribed collection of violin duets an...

This book and accompanying audio make one of J. S. Bach's most enduring and fascinating instrumental works accessible to mandolin players: the Prelude in E Major from his solo sonata in E major for vi...

Unknown until their discovery was announced in 1971 by Péter Várnai in an article in Die Musikforschung, this set of six suites for solo violin, published in 1696, is in all likelihood a second editio...

Easy Classics for Violin ist Teil der Easy Classics-Reihe, die Anfängern und fortgeschrittenen Geigern eine unterhaltsame Einführung in einige der größten klassischen Melodien bietet. Einige der belie...

This volume includes music from Mozart's Viennese Sonatas as well as other incidental works. Titles include: German Dance, Andante, Glockenspiel, Menuetto and Trio, and Rondo. All of the pieces are pl...

Easy Classics für Altsaxophon ist Teil der Easy Classics-Reihe, die Anfängern und fortgeschrittenen Schülern eine unterhaltsame Einführung in einige der größten klassischen Melodien bietet. Dieses Buc...

The 'Easy Classics' series of books was meticulously designed to provide beginning to intermediate instrumentalists with an enjoyable introduction to classical melodies. This alto saxophone edition fe...

Killer Technique: Upright Bass is designed to help open up your technique. It encourages an approach that will make you think and work hard in the practice room, but relax while performing. The cont...

Ursprünglich für Rob MacKillop geschrieben, einen erfahrenen Musiker und Mel Bay-Autor, der vor kurzem den Kontrabass zu der Liste der von ihm gespielten Instrumente hinzufügte, passt diese Sammlung v...

At last! Here are Paolo Bellinati's long-awaited solo guitar arrangements of 10 of the 12 compositions featured on the companion online video. Written in standard notation only with brief performance...

This book contains the elements necessary to learn to play authentic bossa nova and samba accompaniment patterns. The material is presented in a sequential easy-to-follow format. As well as accompanim...

This collection of Latin-influenced pieces is ideal for the classical or fingerstyle guitarist seeking challenging new material that spans a number of genres and is melodically, harmonically, and rhyt...

The book is presented with both music notation and guitar tablature staff so that fingering and fingerboard positions can be easily cross-referenced. The accompanying on-line audio recording allows th...

The main goal of this book is to present what could be called Brazilian guitar today, working melodically, harmonically and rhythmically in some of the most important Brazilian musical styles.. We hav...

This book presents twelve original compositions for piano solo encompassing three musical styles originated in the Brazilian Northeast: the xote, the baiao and the frevo.